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Malaysian's attempt to recapture MH370 narrative.

From off the ATSB MH370 thread:

Hopes of finding missing MH370 ‘are fading fast’

• Mitchell Bingemann
  
• The Australian
  
• May 14, 2016 12:00AM
  
  

Australian air crash investigators’ hopes that the missing Malaysian Airlines jet will be found are fading fast as time and space run out for locating the aircraft.

As the hunt for MH370 enters the final 13,000sq km of its designated 120,000sq km search area in the south Indian Ocean, the head of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, Martin Dolan, said there was a “diminishing level of confidence we will find the aircraft”. “We still think there is a good chance we will find the aircraft but that probability is falling so we have to start contemplating that we may not succeed,” he said. “Everyone … is still focused on the fact that the remaining 13,000sq km is still a lot of territory and it’s still entirely possible the aircraft is there. But we are also starting to think about the implications of not finding it.”

The ATSB is working on a ­report for the government should the search prove fruitless that will consider alternative possibilities for what happened to the plane, including the “rogue pilot” theory that posits the captain of MH370 hijacked his own aircraft and purposely crashed it into the sea.

“If we eliminate the entire 120,000sq km zone, we have eliminated the hypothesis … that there was no control inputs at the end of flight.” Mr Dolan said. “At this point an alternative hypothesis would need to be considered. Since we eliminate the hypothesis of no control inputs, then we look at the ways in which there was control, which would include a controlled ditching or a glide.”

He said there was no indication from the Australian, Mal­aysian or Chinese governments the search would be expanded.

And two days ago we had this from the INQUISITR publication:

 
New evidence from a computer study shows that Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 apparently crashed into the Indian Ocean hundreds of miles north of where an official, Australia-led search team has been scouring the remote region of the seabed since September of 2014, according to a report from the German scientific team at the GEOMAR Hemlholtz Center For Oceanic Research.

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 — a Boeing 777-200 jumbo jet with 239 people on board — disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on the night of March 8, 2014. With all communications cut off, the only way searchers were able to have any idea where the plane went was from a series of “ping” signals between the plane and a satellite.

Using the “ping” evidence, investigators concluded that the Malaysia Airlines plane, for some unknown reason, flew seven hours off course and crashed into a remote region of the southern Indian Ocean the searchers dubbed “The Seventh Arc.”

The first piece of debris from the plane did not turn up until July of 2015, on Reunion Island in the western Indian Ocean, off the eastern coast of Africa. Since then, four more pieces of debris have been found, all in the same region off the southeast coast of Africa.
The two latest debris pieces discovered were finally confirmed on Thursday to have come from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, as detailed in the below video news report from CBS News Online

The German scientists, led by Dr. Jonathan Durgadoo, first conducted their study in September of 2015, using computer modeling of oceanic drift patterns to trace the possible routes taken by the Reunion Island debris — a chunk of wing known as a “flaperon” — that would have allowed it to end up on the French-owned island from a crash site somewhere in the Indian Ocean.

To read earlier Inquisitr coverage of the drift pattern revelations see the “Previous Coverage” links in the box below on this page.

Durgadoo and his team on Wednesday released a revised version of their study, in which they updated their simulated drift patterns to show that the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 likely hit the water somewhat south of where their earlier study indicated — but still hundreds of miles north of where the official searchers believe Flight MH370 went down.


In the above map, created by the German team, the “Seventh Arc” is defined by a white rectangle toward the bottom of the pink-colored area. As the chart shows, the possible drift routes for the flaperon are clustered far to the north of the official search area — which, if accurate, would explain why the searchers, despite spending a reported $130 million on the search, have found nothing.

“While it is shifted a bit southward from the initial study done last September, our basic result that most particles originate from a region north of the current search area remains unchanged,” Durgadoo said in a statement issued this week by GEOMAR.

The latest debris pieces turned up on coastlines in Mozambique and South Africa, also in southeastern Africa, and on the island of Mauritias, off the Mozambique coastline. Those debris finds are consistent with the GEOMAR conclusions regarding the flaperon found on Reunion Island, the scientists say.

“The ocean currents through the Mozambique Channel and along the South African coast are extensions of the route that passes by La Réunion,” said Arne Biastoch, another scientist who worked on the drift modeling computer study.

The full GEOMAR report can be read by clicking on this link.

According to independent researcher Jeff Wise, a journalist and aviation expert who has written frequently on the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 mystery, the northerly location of the crash site, if indeed the GEOMAR study is accurate, almost certainly means that either the pilot or some unknown person was at the controls of the Boeing 777 as it curved northward and finally hit the water.

“If the plane was under conscious control until the bitter end, then we cannot assume that, as in the unpiloted scenario, it spiraled into the sea once its fuel ran out,” Wise wrote on his blog this week. “Instead, the conscious pilot might have chose to hold it into a glide far beyond the seventh arc. We have no reasonable expectation, therefore, that a narrow search along the seventh arc would yield the wreckage.”

Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/3090226/malaysi...f618Jmi.99

Then yesterday, via the Allied Press, in what appears to be an apparent attempt by the Malaysians to counter this largely disseminated MSM story:

                          
Malaysia says search area for Flight 370 will not shift

May. 13, 2016 4:10 AM EDT 

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia said Friday the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 will not be shifted after the discoveries of five pieces of debris in the western Indian Ocean.

The government this week had confirmed the last two pieces, found in South Africa and Rodrigues Island off Mauritius, are "almost certainly" from the Boeing 777 that disappeared mysteriously more than two years ago.

Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said the discoveries aligned with the modeling pattern established by experts of where debris would drift from a crash in the southern Indian Ocean. He said the 120,000 square kilometers search area, west of Australia, will be completed before authorities decide whether to further extend the hunt.

"We won't shift the search area. From the debris found, it actually confirms that our search area is the right area looking at the drift pattern," Liow said.

The area is the "most probable" crash site and authorities have so far covered more than 105,000 square kilometers, he said.

"It is important that we find more debris, more wreckage, so that we can actually analyze and find the cause of the incident," Liow said. "We are still confident of finding the main wreckage....we are looking for an answer and we need to find wreckage."

Officials from Malaysia, Australia and China will meet by June or July to "chart the future of the search," Liow said without elaborating. Australia has been leading the search, which so far has turned up empty. Most of the passengers on the flight, which carried 239 people, were from China.

The three pieces of debris confirmed from the plane earlier were found on France's Reunion Island and along Mozambique's coast.

Though the discoveries have bolstered authorities' assertion that the plane crashed somewhere in the Indian Ocean, none of the parts thus far has yielded any clues into exactly where and why the aircraft crashed. Those elusive answers lie with the flight data recorders, or black boxes, which experts say may never be found.

One word about the KL presser - BOLLOCKS!


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